The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

